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On May 23 Joan was brought to a room near her cell where some of the judges and assessors had gathered. The University of Paris’ decision, broken down into six articles, was read to her. In addition to charging her as a heretic, schismatic, apostate and witch, one article drew attention to her male clothing. The indictment stated: You have said that you wore and still wear man’s dress at God’s command . . . and so you have put on a short tunic, jerkin, and hose with many points. You even wear your hair cut short above the ears, without keeping about you anything to denote your sex, save what nature has given you. They went on, telling her it was blasphemous for her to have worn male garb, especially during the times she received the eucharist. Since she claimed she would rather die than change her clothing, she was charged with transgressing divine law, Holy Scripture and the canons of the Church. “You are full of vain boasting . . . given to idolatry and worship[ing] yourself and your clothes.” 9 This charge would become the basis for Joan’s conviction.

Today, I learned that Joan of Arc was executed primarily for her gender treason more than her supposed heresies.

Black and white photo of an older man with short white hair and trimmed beard, wearing a turtleneck and open tweed jacket. He stands outdoors against a brick wall and wooden post, with foliage in the background, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

Dr. Norman Bethune was one of the most influential physicians of his era.
He pioneered the use of a mobile blood transfusion unit in war zones, and introduced modern medicine to rural China.
Honoured in China, it took decades for Canada to do the same.
This is his story.

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Screenshot of a Facebook reels grid showing a bunch of AI generated slop videos depicting deportations with captions placed over the watermark locations where Sora adds its watermarks

OpenAI's Sora video generator places 3 watermarks on its AI generated videos: the top-left or top-right corner, the center-right, and the bottom-left corner.

Each of these Facebook videos has 3 caption overlays which just happen to be placed in these 3 locations.

Canada announces a $1.7 billion program to recruit top H1B visa holders from America

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

will Mamdani be the first anti-Lutheran mayor of NYC?

if there’s one thing the last quarter-century has shown us, it’s that there’s millions of would-be Hitlers around, almost none of whom are linked by genetics

it is a victory of Hitlerite thought that people are attempting to use Hitler’s own logic to explain the man himself, looking at his genes rather than from the socio-political factors that allowed him to rise

With added colour.

I think this was the moment when I first noticed it—I looked at this panel and thought “this comic has such great characters” and then suddenly realized that one of them had been there for 90 years and the other three were only introduced in the last year-and-change but they all just *work* together

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

I went through a perspective shift lately that if we want to fix the real issues with info, media, and sense-making in the 21st century, we can’t start from the position that we are already doomed to no longer access ground truth or share a consensus reality, but can in fact still know true things

I was 22, staring at the TV, shouting internally "What! What!? You CAN be transgender for real? You CAN transition???"

This is a post about why they really want to ban cellphones for kids.

literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"

You: Ugh, this migraine is killing me. I’m going to take excedrin

Alien: (50,000 light years away) Our psychic broadcast telling them blueprints for an infinite free energy machine has failed. They used the inhibitor

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising WSIB - Top Chef (2007, Canada)

do you know any Canadians who got boiled to death at work? I bet you don't, because we've all seen this PSA about 400 times

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...

American PSA: don't do drugs, kids, they're bad for you!

Canadian PSA: we locked the most insane people we know in a room with a sheet of acid and a box of puppets, here's all the worst deaths they could think of

The crew would be 50% trans, almost entirely gay, there'd be no white characters at all, a muslim captain, it'd be nuts

the weird thing about Star Trek is you watch TOS and if you forget it's from 1968, it seems downright backwards. But if you took TOS and updated it for 2025 levels of progressiveness, the Republicans would be calling for the production staff and the writers to be executed on live TV

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Arrival was released 9 years ago today.

Denis Villeneuve: "I was looking for something very specific and very special to enter into the sci-fi genre, and when I read Ted Chiang’s brilliant short story “Story of Your Life,” I knew that was it. There was something about the exploration of..."

TS Eliot was full of shit on multiple levels but especially about April. November is definitely the cruelest month

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

"The danger is all around us. We are suckers for this charm. It’s going to be our downfall, it seems. We’d rather be entertained than taken care of. It’s tragic, really.”--Michael Shannon

‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today

God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'

From the NYT newsletter: • "Alien: Earth," now in its first season, continues the half-century-old "Alien" franchise. But the true horrors aren't ravenous xenomorphs anymore; they're tech companies.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...